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...Over in the remains of the Evil Empire, the former KGB isn?t faring much better: Its elite appear to have gone into politics and business, while their former subordinates are reduced to hawking secret files to the highest bidder...
...about reports, first published by the Washington Post, that Russia had offered to sell Iraq machinery that could be used to produce bioweapons and that Russians working as U.N. inspectors had been passing secrets to the Iraqis. (The first Russian to join a U.N. inspection team was a former KGB station chief.) Moscow denied...
...government official pointed to the MOST Group, Gusinsky's media and banking empire, headquartered just across the road from the government building where Chubais has his office. MOST's security organization, 600 strong and equipped with sophisticated technology, is headed by a former deputy chairman of the KGB...
Chubais' claim sounded plausible. Natural resources are not the only things that are being privatized. Corporate security organizations bug phones and provide their bosses with dirt on their enemies, just like the old KGB. Newspapers owned or funded by the new magnates then print the material, just as the Communist Party press did in the past to a disgraced leader, a dissident or an irritating foreigner. Until recently Chubais had seemed an exception to the regime of moral relativity that reigns in Moscow. He could come across as arrogant, aloof and driven. But most people believed he was honest. This...
...arrested by the Federal Security Service (successors to the KGB) even though his activities had been authorized by a local telephone utility, and the equipment he used was commercially available piece of navigational technology...